Is there a way to run initial SQL when creating an RDS database instance using CloudFormation?

Question

I am creating an RDS instance using CloudFormation using this:

\"Resources\": {
        \"myDB\": {
            \"Type\": \"AWS::RDS::DBInstance\",
                     


        

Answer 1

No, it's not possible. However, you could have an EC2 instance connect to your RDS instance to do it. I'd probably store a .sql file in S3 and use a cloud-init script on the EC2 instance to download the file and execute it.